The pinnacle of sharing music was Audiogalaxy

I loved Audiogalaxy but Soulseek was the best in its prime. Either way I miss those days. It felt like the whole world was open to sharing.

Fully agree. I discovered Tenacious D though their early bootlegs on AG. The amount of stuff they had available had never been matched.

what.cd was the high point IMO

Oink, what.cd, and the redacted followers, were on a level that commercial streaming will never ever reach.

(The only reason is our absurd, anti-culture copyright laws)

Redacted is still very good. Sadly spotify makes it too easy so I stopped pirating music.

This! A web browser based UI which would trigger downloads in a native download manager is a user experience which is unparalleled to the day!

You know, Soulseek exists.

I'm impressed soulseek exists and is popular. I think it is the only centralized p2p network which survived.

Grooveshark came close, but it was always going to get shut down

Hotline was pretty exciting. Did anyone else here get involved with this? [0]

Back when broadband had just hit Seattle I ran a server on an old PowerPC

IA paraphrased quote from a user:

> I am actually signed to TVT records but it this server’s contents that enables my creativity.

These days I pay for everything, but that testament to digital freedom sticks with me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications

Hotline is still up :) Now we use KDX, Pitbull Pro and a few others, but it's still around. Check out Preterhuman.

Hotline, brings me back. Find the third word ending in ‘ed’ after clicking the banner ad. That’s your hotline password.

I'm actually logged into an hl server as we speak! (Higher Intellect) .. Still some of my favorite internet memories. I still insist my fast typing speed is due to chatting for hours and hours every night on there :)

Yes! Hotline was wild.

I am not affiliated in any way with SADwyw spider.

I agree to delete all backups within 24 hours as per the internet act signed by Bill Clinton.